Dracotail Deck #773928 — Yu-Gi-Oh! Master Duel

Deck — Deck Power Evaluation

Final Contextual Deck Power: 57/100 (±7 · Confidence: Medium)

• Primary strategy: Control
• Secondary strategies: Combo
• Format: master-duel

Legality

Main 43 / Extra 15 / Side 0 — status: Legal.

Identity & game plan

• Win condition: Fusion Summon a 3000-ATK Dragon (Dracotail Arthalion, Albion the Sanctifire Dragon, Mirrorjade, Secreterion Dragon) after spending hand traps and Spell/Trap disruption to keep the opponent off the board; Dracotail Gulamel and Khaos Starsource Dragon as board-clearing follow-ups from Fusion material
• Turn 1 (going first): Open a Dracotail or Fallen of Albaz starter, search via Lukias or Ketu, and fuse Arthalion or Albion while holding Ash Blossom and Effect Veiler for the opponent's first effect
• Turn 2 (going second): Hold Ash Blossom, Veiler, Ghost Ogre, Maxx 'C' and Ghost Mourner to interrupt the opponent's Special Summons and first engine, then fuse on the following turn
• Recovery: Recycle Dracotail monsters and Spell/Trap cards from the GY and banishment to the bottom of the Deck with Urgula, Pan, Sting, Flame and Horn to draw back into the engine
• After siding: No Side Deck is registered, so there is no post-side plan in the evidence; any sideboarding plan is unverified

Why it scores here

The deck reliably opens into a functional line because 27 copies of the Dracotail/Mulcharmy/Fallen core give a 99.6% chance of at least one core card in the opening five, and five different 3-copy starters (Faimena, Urgula, Fuwalos, Ash Blossom, Effect Veiler) cover the first turns. Its strongest score comes from interaction on the system: nine hand traps, ten negation texts and eleven removal texts, layered across both turns, earn the endboard-interaction score rather than any single card's power. Conversion is credited only as text-based inference because no recorded boards exist, so the combo ceiling and median are scored conservatively and labeled Inferred. Going-second is supported by hand traps and Fusion disruption (about a 78% chance of at least one hand trap in a six-card hand), but the deck has no Side Deck and no dated meta sample, so side adaptability and matchup fit are held near neutral and marked Provisional. Popularity and the archetype's 100% usage of its core did not add points by themselves, and no card scores were averaged into the deck score.

Dimension scores

How the score was computed

Strategy profile: Control. Structural ≈ 61.7, Going First ≈ 62, Going Second ≈ 64, Meta = provisional, Tournament Reliability ≈ 58. Modifiers: banlist exposure (-2); single choke point (-2); no side deck (-2); layered hand-trap interaction (2). Final formula: 0.80*Structural + 0.20*TournamentReliability (Meta provisional) + ContextModifiers = 0.80*61.7 + 0.20*58 - 4 ≈ 57

Probability & combo summary

• Opening a starter: P(≥1) ≈ 1 · key two-card combo ≈ — · full-brick estimate ≈ — (all Inferred)
• Combo output: best PowerIndex —, median —, board-per-starter —
• Turn order: 0 going-first lines vs 0 going-second lines

Strengths

• Layered hand-trap and negation coverage on both turns (9 hand traps, 10 negation texts)
• Core archetype density with 27 copies gives near-certain starter access in the opening five
• Strong 3000-ATK Fusion bosses and Spell/Trap disruption on the Fusion turn
• Recursion through Dracotail GY and banish effects supports a grinding game

Weaknesses

• No Side Deck, so no post-side adaptation
• Several single-copy Limited cards carry the Fusion and disruption engine
• Fusion sequencing relies on many per-turn limits, which raises decision load
• Exact-name archetype purity is only 36%, so the engine spans several sub-archetypes

Critical choke points

• Fallen of Albaz (1 copy) for Albaz-linked Fusion access
• Branded Fusion (1 copy) for Branded-linked Fusion routes
• Ketu Dracotail and Lukias as the main searches for Fusion material

Recommended changes

Evidence & confidence

• Verified: Main 43 and Extra 15 are inside Master Duel size rules; Six Limited and three Semi-Limited cards are run within their legal copy limits; Card text and stats match the card list (e.g. Arthalion 3000 ATK, Sanctifire 3000 ATK); Usage stats show Dracotail core at 100% inclusion
• Observed: Archetype core presence is 27 copies across the deck; Hand-trap count is 9 and negation-text count is 10
• Inferred: Opening-five starter probability ≈ 0.996 for the core group; Going-second hand-trap access ≈ 0.78; Interaction layering and recursion scoring from card text; Choke-point analysis for Fallen of Albaz and Branded Fusion
• Provisional: Meta power (null); Matchup and format fit (D13); Side Deck adaptability (D12)
• Data gaps: no combos supplied — combo floor/median/ceiling is text-only inference no tournament link — archetype meta-share and per-pilot match record absent no win-rate telemetry exists in YGOVN — going-first/second, matchup, game-level, brick/starter/OTK rates are Inferred or Unknown Meta Power is Provisional unless a dated metagame sample is supplied no Side Deck registered (Side Deck size 0) usage statistics in this deck flags conflict with the cards array for several Extra Deck cards (Alba-Lenatus, Albion Sanctifire, Mirrorjade, Rindbrumm, Dragon that Devours the Dogma, Ecclesia and the Dark Dragon, Gulamel, Secreterion, Titaniklad); the cards array (15 Extra copies) was treated as the deck of record